[news] When Torture Was Practiced on U.S. Soil

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Howard Lisnoff - July 26, 2008

When cases of torture were reported at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp...I was not surprised. When detainees there were originally denied Constitutional rights and rights under the Geneva Conventions, I was not shocked, knowing just how far the government and military could go in inflicting punishment at bases in the U.S. and around the world. The military had inflicted abuse on its own soldiers during the Vietnam War, targeting those who did not fit the mold of military discipline...[W]hen reports of torture and abuse by the military at Abu Ghraib prison...were reported, once again I knew that none of this was new and had been practiced on U.S. soil.  


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